diff --git a/www/py-django-markwhat/Makefile b/www/py-django-markwhat/Makefile
index 6dd52ca5c492..3172fcf8eb81 100644
--- a/www/py-django-markwhat/Makefile
+++ b/www/py-django-markwhat/Makefile
@@ -1,20 +1,36 @@
 PORTNAME=	django-markwhat
-PORTVERSION=	1.6.2
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	2025.5.31
 CATEGORIES=	www python textproc
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
+DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME:S/-/_/}-${DISTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	bofh@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Collection of template filters that implement common markup languages
 WWW=		https://pypi.org/project/django-markwhat/
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools-scm>=3.4.3:devel/py-setuptools-scm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
+RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}django52>0:www/py-django52@${PY_FLAVOR}
+
 USES=		python
-USE_PYTHON=	autoplist distutils
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist pep517
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
+OPTIONS_DEFINE=		MARKDOWN
+OPTIONS_DEFAULT=	MARKDOWN
+
+MARKDOWN_DESC=		Support for Markdown
+
+MARKDOWN_RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}markdown>0:textproc/py-markdown@${PY_FLAVOR}
+
+post-patch:
+	@${REINPLACE_CMD} '/license-files/d; s|^license = "BSD-3-Clause"|license = { text = "BSD-3-Clause" }|' \
+		${WRKSRC}/pyproject.toml
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/www/py-django-markwhat/distinfo b/www/py-django-markwhat/distinfo
index 55f9d8cf9124..aab981a1f3dc 100644
--- a/www/py-django-markwhat/distinfo
+++ b/www/py-django-markwhat/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1646761510
-SHA256 (django-markwhat-1.6.2.tar.gz) = d16b760f36e51c1a4e6cc440eaafda599625ae4ad5a4e88c1933b573b865e17a
-SIZE (django-markwhat-1.6.2.tar.gz) = 8102
+TIMESTAMP = 1785094694
+SHA256 (django_markwhat-2025.5.31.tar.gz) = e8c9ec0bd398981d7fb7791d40cc29b64aaf4446842ba6005f8860f559207fa0
+SIZE (django_markwhat-2025.5.31.tar.gz) = 11949